Horror

Wednesday – Here We Woe Again

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  • Title: Wednesday – Here We Woe Again
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After a glimpse of her summer vacation, which included capturing her favorite serial killer, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) returns to Nevermore Academy to find herself a celebrity due to her actions that saved the school at the end of the First Season. This time Pugsley (Isaac Ordonez) joins her as well (who will end up having his own unexpected adventure in accidentally raising the dead while investigating the school’s most famous ghost story). While struggling with her sudden fame, the idea that her mother (Catherine Zeta-Jones) might be sticking around to help with the school’s upcoming gala, and uncertainties over the school’s new principal (Steve Buscemi), Wednesday will also stumble upon new mysteries to solve.

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Weapons

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  • Title: Weapons
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It will be interesting to see if American audiences will be patient enough for the slow burn of writer/director Zach Cregger‘s Weapons which takes place one month after all but one student from an elementary classroom each leave their homes at exactly 2:17am one morning and disappear into the night. Presented in a series of vignettes highlighting different characters, some of which overlap more than others, the film digs into the trauma and fear the kids’ disappearance has caused before the movie, eventually, reveals the truth behind events. And, if you are patient enough to wait for it, Weapons delivers one of the most memorable climactic sequences in recent memory.

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In the Lost Lands

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  • Title: In the Lost Lands
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There’s a moment, perhaps 80-minutes into the film, where our protagonists battle cursed skeleton warriors inside a hollowed-out nuclear reactor which provides the only momentary thrill of an otherwise dreadful adaptation of a George R. R. Martin short story featuring a witch (Milla Jovovich) with pulsating eyeballs and a hunter (Dave Bautista) traveling through a dystopian desert in search of a werewolf. Filmed on a modest budget for large-scale sci-fi/horror, In the Lost Lands earned back one-ninth of the film’s cost. The term is often overused nowadays, but this is what a true flop looks like. It did no better with critics than audiences with its hackneyed storytelling and half-developed concepts finding little to no support.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

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  • Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
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Other than the basic concept, and a few minor details, I have no strong memory of 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer which, although is credited for helping revive the slasher genre following closely on the heels of the much more successful Scream, was ultimately a rather forgettable example of the genre. Skip ahead nearly 30 years and you’ve got a new version of the film which offers a similar set up of a car accident caused by a group of friends (Madelyn Cline, Chase Sui Wonders, Jonah Hauer-King, Tyriq Withers, and Sarah Pidgeon) who make a pact to cover it up rather than face the consequences of their actions. One year later, however, someone with a hook (and also knives and a speargun) begins targeting them and their loved ones. Are they smart enough to find the killer before they are all killed? Probably not as these aren’t exactly the smartest crop of victims to be targeted by a killer in a slasher flick.

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Jurassic World Rebirth

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  • Title: Jurassic World Rebirth
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Good news, bad news. The good news is that Jurassic World Rebirth is better than the last couple Jurassic World movies where the franchise offered us the disappointing Dominion and dreadful Fallen Kingdom. The bad news is it’s not all that much better. A far cry from the franchise’s best, Jurassic World Rebirth struggles with what to keep and what to throw out in a formulaic adventure that is smart enough to make fun of the lagging interest in dinosaurs decades after the original Jurassic Park but not smart enough to offer anything new other than shoehorning in Black Widow. Still, for a summer popcorn movie with dinosaurs, you could do worse (as the franchise has proven).

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